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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the nomological relations among market‐orientation, learning … results show that firm innovativeness positively affects firm performance; firm learning‐orientation positively influences … firm innovativeness; firm market‐orientation positively impacts firm learning orientation; firm learning …
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Purpose – The paper aims to look at small to medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs') approach to learning and innovation …. Design/methodology/approach – The first research direction focuses on the internal and external sources for learning used in … areas. Findings – Romanian SMEs display a learning orientation related to innovation, using best practices within the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take an in-depth look at the differences in learning based on the nature of … proactivity on the learning level. Design/methodology/approach – This investigation drew up a structured questionnaire to better … understand how CEOs face learning issues. A series of ?2, t-tests, Harman's one-factor tests, correlations, and regression …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take an in‐depth look at the differences in learning based on the nature of … proactivity on the learning level. Design/methodology/approach – This investigation drew up a structured questionnaire to better … understand how CEOs face learning issues. A series of χ 2 , t ‐tests, Harman's one‐factor tests, correlations, and regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014783343
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the organizational learning capacity of … management system of a company (the strategy formulation process and organizational design) do not condition the learning level … experienced changes in which a high level of learning has been achieved have adapted their management systems more according to …
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deployed a discourse perspective to managing, organising and learning. Through two case study companies the paper explores how … managers' formal management learning influenced their organisation practice. Findings – Demonstrates how significant … dysfunctional organisational processes. Provides new ways of understanding and researching the interconnections between learning …
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Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and...
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learning of fundamental values, established through gemba kaizen and through the learning organisation. Design …/methodology/approach – Established through the results of a survey of 50 manufacturing companies in the UAE, and based on the andragogical learning … concept in both solving a problem and generating new knowledge, this paper investigates a conceptual basis for action learning …
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This paper has its background in a research project that studied 12 cases of local development and co‐operation in the Swedish wood‐manufacturing sector during 1997‐2000 and 20 similar projects in other parts of Sweden in 1998. One reflection from this project was that the small firm...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and understand the learning opportunities that exist for smaller … involve two micro firm suppliers. Findings – The research discusses the types of learning identified within two pilot …. The results conclude that the collaborative nature of the supply chain environment is conducive to shared learning between …
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